part_of physiological process of malaria vector pre-oviposition behaviour hovering A female that had touched the water surface changed her mode of flight abruptly, beginning to hover, with little displacement in space. Sometimes she stayed in almost exactly the same spot or bobbed up and down 10mm or so vertically or obliqely, or she might swing through an arc of 20-100mm dipping at each end. IDOMAL:0002324 IDOMAL:0002324 idomal_namespace pre-oviposition behaviour